The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity
Hardbound
2005 · Cambridge
by Murphy, Brenda
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hardbound. VG/VG. Black cloth with silver lettering; black and red dj with illustration and white lettering; 282 pp. with no illustrations. The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922. This study considers the group's vital role and its wider significance in American culture; with reference to William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Marguerite and William Zorach, Charles Demuth, Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings and more. Murphy closely analyzes over thirty plays. (Inventory #: 111991)